INDEX 



445 



' Guardian,' the, 29 

 Gypsophila prostrata, 139, 167 



HALL, Bishop, 435 



Hallam, Arthur, Mr. Gladstone's 

 account of, 321, 322 



Hamamelis japonica, 211 



Hampton Court, covered walk at, 

 128 



Hanbury, Commendatore, 260 



Happiness, the cultivation of, 405 



Hare, Augustus J. C., his books 

 on Italy, 308, 323, 355, 364 



Health, 9, 10 ; hints on, 216 sqq. 



Hearths, marble, preferable to 

 tiled, 397 



Heaths, 128, 178 



Heine, 74 



Heliotrope, 90, 179 



Hellebores, 161 



Hemerocallis fulva, 377 



Henry Jacobi Pelargonium, 90 



Hepaticas, 48, 49 



Herb-seasoning, 45 



Herbert, William (quoted), 86 



Heredity, 11 



Hernandez, physician to Philip 

 II., 31 



Hesperis tristis, 288 



Hess, Dr. Karl, 79 



Holbein, portrait of Erasmus by, 

 378 



Holboellia latifolia, 262 



Holland, Mrs., quotation from 

 letters by, 420 



Holly, for decorating, 143, 144 ; 

 Southey's lines on, 300 



Hollyhocks, mixture for destroy- 

 ing blight on, 383 



Home, absence from, 21 ; con- 

 versation in the, 404 



Home-life, 12, 13, 399 sqq. 



Honey, 267 



Honeysuckle, 128 



Hops, 293 



Hornbeam, the, 128 ; weeping, 

 129 



' Hortus Eystettensis,' title of 

 old book on flowers, 93 



' Hotch-potch,' 4 



House, the, good management in, 



197-199 



Howells, W. D., on Florence, 338 

 Hugo, Victor (quoted), 33 

 Humboldt, Baron, on the amount 



of sleep necessary, 193 

 Humea elegans, 383 

 Hyacinths, 48, 133, 161,206, 252 

 Hydrangeas, 36, 37, 361, 362 

 Hypocrisy, necessity of some 



kinds of, 400 



IBERIS sempervirens, 168 

 Ice-plant, 88, 89 

 Imantophyllums, 95, 207, 212 

 Independence in boys and girls, 



13, 15, 16 



Indiarubber plants, 169 

 Individuality in art, 380, 381 

 Insects, in gardens, 33, 34 ; dread 



of, 51 

 Ireland in January, 153 ; soil and 



trees of, 154-157 ; troubles of, 



155 ; co-operative movement 



in, 160 

 Iris fcetidissima, 59, 164, 172 



kampferi, 173, 255 



pseudacorus, 361 



reticulata, 205 



stylosa, 207 



Susiana, 201, 202 



Irises, 59, 161, 207, 255 ; bloom- 

 ing time of, 255 



Italy, art in, 310 sqq. ; travelling 

 in, 322, 324, 325 ; survival of 

 paganism in, 342 (See also 

 Florence) 



Ivy, for rockeries, 56 ; 138 ; grow- 

 ing on trees, 155 ; Japanese, 363 



Ixias, 175 



JAMES, Mr. Henry, on illusions, 



422 

 Jameson, Mrs., 92; works on 



Italian art by, 311 sgq. 

 Jams, 299 

 Jasmine, yellow, 90 

 Jasmimim mtdiftorum, 138, 153 



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